Dear reader, trust me, this is a place you always belong.
Have you ever wondered if you could find a platform that shares stories you can relate to entirely and makes you feel you are not alone in whatever you are going through?
Well, you found the place. Here on realesttalks.com, I will share with you detailed stories about life, success, relationship, learnable lessons from movie characters and celebrities, and introduce you to the most interesting aspects of the African culture; particularly the Ghanaian culture. I will also share personal stories about my life and experience as a wife (I’m sure most married women will express solidarity too).
Every story shared will not be coded or fabricated, but plain as it is which will help transform your life into the person you want to be.
Three years ago, I started writing on my newly launched website, impacting lives with my content until my website got hacked, and I gave up. Now, I’m back to sharing those lovely relatable stories with you, and I know you will love them, too.
Allow me to include in this introductory post the last content I shared on my ‘lost community.’
I spoke about how one can plan out life, set goals to achieve, and strive hard to succeed. I went through the steps and wrote a few words of encouragement at the end. I made it seem as if it was easy to set plans and achieve them. Setting plans? Yes, it’s easy, but achieving them is the difficult part. Believe me when I tell you it’s not easy at all. Last year, I planned about five things I wanted to achieve- these five things may sound as if they were just some easy tasks to carry out, but they weren’t.
I achieved not even one of them. It wasn’t because I was lazy or procrastinated throughout the entire year, but what happened was that I went through some unexpected encounters (which I will be sharing in my subsequent posts. so, make sure you visit here every day to read) that distorted everything for me. I spent last year (2022) trying to discover myself again; it was like l had completely lost the sense of who I am, what I want to achieve, or where I’m going in life. It was like I wasn’t me anymore.
Have you been in a situation where at some point, you are so sure of who you are and what you want, and sometime later you completely lose that sense of self-awareness and like now you are not so sure, anymore, about what you want or whether you have the strength and power to attain it?
Well, that was what happened to me.
If you haven’t been in that state before, then ‘kudos’ to you. If you have been in that state before, then you should know, you are not alone.
Luckily for me, I had people around me who were very supportive and helped me throughout my situation to get me back on my feet. It was an on-and-off affair, but I pulled through in the end. My husband and sister were so kind and understanding. It got to a point where I was expecting my husband to give up, but he didn’t. He “made a vow and will always stand by it.”
If you don’t have anyone to share your predicament with, this website is the place for you. Here, you will learn that other people go through the same or similar issues as yours; you will also learn how they overcame them.
Today, I can say that I have my spirit filled up with more expectations and more progress to make. The journey to success is not easy. When you want to make it so bad and are burnt up on achieving, you encounter so many temptations. I can’t say you won’t fall into any of those temptations because you would, but I can say that always find your way back on your feet. Don’t reject the help people closer to you would want to give you. I am the type of person who does not want to owe people favors or gratitude, but I’ve learned that, at some point in life, we all need help. We need help from people we know or don’t know. It is not a shame to seek help when you need it. It also doesn’t take anything away from you when you say thank you to your helpers.
The most important thing is that, in the end, you are satisfied with who you have become. It all boils down to your expectations, or how much success means to you.
Failures are bound to happen, but do not let them deter your progress. Failures are there to guide us- educate us on what not to repeat. I know I’m sounding like a motivational speaker right now which is not currently the motive; I guess I’m coming from a place of experience and I want you to know that it is okay that sometimes you get lost, find yourself in the same place over and over again, feel like you’re battling with your soul or at war in your mind, you’re alone in this world, nothing seems to work for you, everything delays for you, or the world would be a better place without you. It only proves that you’re a human being and you’re going through life. What’s more to work on is not letting these thoughts take control of your life because when they do, you later regret your actions. Sometimes, it’s too late for any regret.
If these thoughts make you do regretful things and get you to a point where you think you are too far gone to come back to your old self, know that that’s the time you can do better if you try. So, fight back when it happens again. When you fall, you get back up again, and when you fall at the same place, you fall in a new style and get back on your feet again.
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